When his son was sent to fight in Ukraine, Sergei begged him not to go. “You’ve got relatives there. Just refuse,” Sergei recalls telling Stas, who was already an army officer. “But he said he was going. He believed it was right. I told him that he was a zombie...
Operations have resumed at the Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa after Russia used Iranian-made drones to hit energy facilities in the city. The port in the south of the country was closed after strikes on Saturday left 1.5 million people and all non-critical infrastructure without power...
Kazakhstan is again looking to the potential of a Trans-Caspian pipeline, but do plans to diversify oil export routes just hitch the Kazakh economy further to a doomed fossil fuel industry? Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called diversification of oil export routes, particularly...
The fate of Kazakh dissident and fugitive Mukhtar Ablyazov was set to be on the agenda when French President Emmanuel Macron met his Kazakh counterpart this week.Le Figaro has reported that Ablyazov, who has been convicted of embezzling $7 billion from the bank he ran, could be a...
New York, USA (22/10 – 57) At the General Debate of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly on September 20, 2022, in New York, President of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev stood before world leaders at what he said was “a critical time for humanity.” The...
